Fire officials are still investigating the cause of a three-alarm fire that left nine people homeless on New Year’s Day.Fire Department Assistant Chief Mike Morris said Monday that no cause had yet been ruled out after the fast-moving fire tore through two residential buildings in the Haight district Sunday night.
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Seven people were transported to hospitals for treatment of injuries following a fire at Ellis and Jones streets, according to a San Francisco Fire Department dispatcher.
The fire was reported at 5:20 p.m. on the 300 block of Ellis Street and is now contained. Further information on those injured was not available, the dispatcher said.
San Francisco police said 200 people were displaced.
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A fire in a single-room occupancy unit in the Bayview neighborhood displaced 23 people Saturday afternoon.
The fire broke out at about 3 p.m. Saturday at 5122 Third St., between Revere and Shafter avenues, in a room on the top floor of the three-story building, according to Assistant Fire Chief Dave Franklin.
The blaze shut down Muni service on Third Street for about an hour, while firefighters extinguished the fire, he said.
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Tony Stefani, a San Francisco native and retired Fire Department captain, founded the San Francisco Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation in 2006 after surviving his own battle with the disease. The 60-year-old shares his thoughts on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and his mission of reducing firefighter exposure to cancer-causing toxins.How big is the concern of firefighters being exposed to toxins before and after combating a blaze?
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The woman struck and killed by a Muni bus Friday has been identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office.
Emily Dunn, 23, of San Francisco was in a crosswalk at the intersection of 18th and Hartford streets, near Castro Street, at 2:30 p.m. when a bus that was making a left turn struck her, according to police Sgt. Michael Andraychak.
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Gene and Leslie Clements’ home was spared by what they called the "quick work" of the Fire Department when a fire that burned a neighboring three-story building in San Francisco’s North of Panhandle neighborhood reached a second alarm Saturday afternoon.
Gene was at the back of his house at 1342 Hayes St. when he smelled smoke. Leslie went to the back porch to have a look and saw flames licking the rear of the home next door.
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Neighborhood fire stations could lose service if firefighters refuse to give up their scheduled wage increases, fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said Wednesday.
Mayor Ed Lee’s budget proposal closed a $306 million shortfall, but it assumed the firefighters union will agree to forgo a $9 million wage hike its members are due on July 1.
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A man who had been standing on the ledge of the Bay Bridge for about two hours this afternoon was taken into custody by the California Highway Patrol at about 4:40 p.m., an officer said.
The man had been on the Bay Bridge just past the Treasure Island exit threatening to jump, as lanes were blocked by rescue crews and traffic backed up.
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A vehicle collision involving a motorcycle at the corner of Second and Folsom streets Saturday morning ended with two patients being transported to San Francisco General Hospital’s trauma center.
A Fire Department dispatcher said emergency workers arrived on the scene within three minutes of the 10:44 a.m. collision, and that no further details are available on the nature of the accident.
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When it comes to workers’ compensation benefits paid out by cities, public safety workers are in a class of their own.
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